Name: 沒掌握這個祕密，你的英文永遠不會流利！（You’ll Never Sound Fluent Until You Learn This Secret!）
Uploaded: 2026-03-17T16:23:36.000Z
Duration: 8 min 56 s

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So you want to stop sounding like a robot in English?

所以你想停止聽起來像個英文機器人嗎？

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Well, you need to start using this one thing.

嗯，你需要開始運用這個東西。

Most English learners focus so much on getting every word right that they forget about the rhythm.

大部分的英文學習者太專注於把每個單字都唸對，卻忽略了 rhythm。

And that's the real secret to sounding natural.

而這才是聽起來自然的真正祕訣。

英文不是用平均的鼓點在說話。

If you give every syllable the same weight, it sounds unnatural and, yes, a little bit robotic.

如果你給每個 syllable 都一樣的力道，聽起來就會不自然，而且，對，有點像機器人。

But once you learn how stress timing works, your speech will instantly sound more fluent.

但是一旦你學會 stress timing 的運作方式，你的說話聽起來就會立刻更 fluent。

所以，讓我來示範給你看看它是怎麼運作的。

Three words, and I'm placing equal stress on all of them.

三個字，我把 equal stress 放在每個字上。

Nothing has really changed in terms of my stress.

在我的重音方面，其實沒有什麼改變。

The most important words are getting the most emphasis, and

最重要的字得到最多的emphasis，

all the other words are being squeezed into the gaps between them.

而其他字都被擠壓到它們之間的空隙裡。

Okay, let's see what happens when we add even more words.

好的，我們來看看加入更多字之後會發生什麼事。

The cats will have been chasing the mice.

We've now got five extra words which I'm squeezing into the spaces.

我們現在多了五個字，我把它們塞進了間隔裡。

This is a process you'll see in English and in other languages like German, Portuguese.

這是一個你會在英文和其他語言，像是德文、葡萄牙文中看到的過程。

English is a stressed time language, which means the stressed syllables occur at roughly regular intervals and the unstressed syllables are shortened or spoken more quickly to maintain that rhythm, as we've seen.

英文是一種 stress timing 語言，意思是重讀的 syllable 大約會以固定的間隔出現，而不重讀的 syllable 會縮短或說得更快，以維持我們看到的 rhythm。

I teach fresh modern British English to people around the world who want to learn about the language and culture of the uk.

我教導世界各地想學習英國語言和文化的人們最新的現代英式英語。

Now, if you're looking for help with your pronunciation, you can enroll for free or on my five day British Pronunciation Challenge.

現在，如果你想改善發音，可以免費報名參加我的五天英式發音挑戰。

It's an online course that takes you through the key sounds of British English.

這是一個線上課程，會帶你認識英式英語的關鍵發音。

So how do you choose which words to stress and which words not to stress?

那麼，我們要怎麼決定哪些字要重讀，哪些字不用重讀呢？

We divide sentences up into content words and function words.

我們會把句子抽成 content words 和 function words。

Content words hold the most significant meaning in a sentence.

Content words 在句子裡承載了最重要的意思。

For example, in this sentence, it's London, Paris, Rome.

例如，在這個句子裡，是 London, Paris, Rome。

Home function words don't hold as much meaning, but

功能詞（function words）承載的意思就沒那麼多，

they do glue the sentences together and make them grammatically correct.

但它們能把句子黏合在一起，讓文法正確。

Then the rule of thumb is that in a Sentence content words are stressed and function words are not stressed.

那個 rule of thumb 就是，在一個句子裡，content words 會被 stress，function words 則不會。

This is because the speaker uses stress to indicate which words they want the listener to pay attention to.

這是因為說話者會用 stress 來表示想讓聽者注意哪些字。

I like to think of stress as simply a distribution of energy across a sentence.

我喜歡把 stress 想成是 distribution of energy 在句子裡的分配。

Some words have a lot of energy, some words less.

有些字能量很多，有些字能量比較少。

I'll say it twice, and then you shadow me saying it exactly as I say it.

我會說兩次，然後你跟著我說，說得跟我一模一樣。

I'm going to London, then Paris, and then Rome, and then back home.

I'm going to London, then Paris and then Rome and then back home.

我今天要到倫敦，然後巴黎，接著羅馬，最後回家。

I want you to focus attention on the little words, particularly to and.

我要你特別注意那些小字，尤其是 to 和 and。

And I want you to focus on keeping those words nice and short.

我希望你專注在把這些字說得又短又清楚。

So how are you going to master stress timing and start speaking more fluently?

那你要怎麼掌握 stress timing，開始說得更 fluent 呢？

Well, you might think it's figuring out which words to stress, but

嗯，你可能會覺得是找出要重讀哪些字，但

actually it's understanding which words not to stress.

The little words we've talked about often become something we call weak forms, essentially unstressed words that get squeezed and squashed into their smallest form.

我們之前提過的小字，常常會變成我們說的弱讀音，也就是不重讀的字，它們會被壓縮、擠壓到最小的形態。

Imagine trying to pack your suitcase for your holiday and you've got too many clothes.

想像一下你打包要去度假的行李箱，衣服太多了。

the small ones like socks, T shirts, underwear, they get squeezed in just so they fit well.

而像襪子、T恤、內褲這些小東西，就會被擠壓塞進去，讓它們剛好能放得下。

These are the weak forms, squashed and squeezed into your suitcase.

這就是弱讀音，被擠壓、塞進你的行李箱裡。

And this is what happens in natural spoken English.

這就是在自然口語英文裡會發生的情況。

For words like that, we pronounce them in their strong form when we emphasize them.

像那樣的字，當我們強調它們時，我們會用強讀音。

But in most everyday speech, we use the weak form, a shorter, softer version.

但在大多數日常對話中，我們會用弱讀音，一個更短、更輕柔的版本。

An example of this would be the word can.

So at the beginning of a sentence, in its strongest form, you'd say, can I come to your party?

所以在句子的開頭，用最強的發音，你會說，Can I come to your party?

In its weak form, you'd hear it say, I can come to your party.

用弱讀音，你會聽到它說，I can come to your party。

Can we try saying both of those sentences for me?

我們來試著唸唸看這兩句話好嗎？

Let's look at some examples of weak forms together without the weak form.

我們來看看沒有弱讀音的例子。

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